Prateeti Chowdhury is a PhD student in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India. Her doctoral research looks at the intersections of literary spatial studies and narrative theory to analyse the representations of mental health institutionalisation in 21st-century American YA fiction. She also holds an MPhil degree from Dibrugarh University, India. Apart from research, Prateeti is a pet parent, an over-enthusiastic foodie, and an occasional baker.
Benjamin Fraser Benjamin Fraser is a professor specializing in comics studies, disability studies, and urban studies in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. His books include Ben Katchor (UP of Mississippi, 2023), Barcelona, City of Comics (SUNY Press, 2022), Visible Cities, Global Comics (UP of Mississippi, 2019) and the Eisner-nominated The Art of Pere Joan (U of Texas P, 2019). Forthcoming with Routledge is Comics Beyond Text and Image: On the Substance of Visual Narration. He currently serves on the editorial board of Studies in Comics.
Anni Lappela, MA, is a PhD Candidate of Russian literature at the University of Helsinki. In her dissertation, Lappela examines representations of “provincial” and Arctic cities in the Russian contemporary literature, published in the 2000s and the 2010s.
Ashton Marhevka is a recent graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology with a BFA in Illustration. He is a huge fan of the work of Gene Luen Yang, with his Eisner award-winning comic book Superman Smashes the Klan being one of his favorites. As such, they were extremely excited to get the chance to work with some of Yang’s early mini-comics within RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection Archives.
Justin F. Martin is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Whitworth University. His research explores the intersection of moral development and superhero and dystopian media. His superhero scholarship highlights superhero media as a context for generating pedagogical and research activities that examine the relationship between moral and nonmoral social concepts. Recent publications explore Black Panther, Luke Cage, Mr. Freeze, Bishop, and The Walking Dead. He is the co-editor of Arkham’s Souls: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Batman’s Villains and Villainesses (Lexington, 2023) with Marco Favaro. He teaches courses in statistics, research methods, developmental psychology, moral development, and morality within the Marvel Universe.
Timothy S. Murphy is Houston-Truax-Wentz Professor and Regents Professor of English at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of the books Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs (California 1997), Antonio Negri: Modernity and the Multitude (Polity 2012), and William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark (Bloomsbury 2023), as well as numerous essays, reviews, and translations addressing modern and contemporary literature, culture, and theory.
Amelia Skinner Saint is a writer and artist whose work has been published in River Styx, Reed Magazine, Cutthroat and elsewhere. Her writing has won the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Award, the H. E. Francis Award, and most recently the Gabriele Rico Challenge for Nonfiction. She is a professor of English and Writing at Briar Cliff University, where they let her teach classes about comic books.